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Stationerythe Departments accounting system combines spend on both printing and stationery. I am therefore unable to provide a breakdown of stationery only. The total costs for printing and stationery are included in the table below.
Business Cardsthe Department for Work and Pensions accounting system does not enable us to provide an analysis of spending on these products. As such, the spend on business cards in included in the table.
Building signsthe Department for Work and Pensions accounting system does not enable us to provide an analysis of spending on these products. As such, the information is not available in the requested format.
The printing and stationery costs included in the table all cover posters, leaflets, letters, printing supplies, paper, pens etc. used by the Child Support agency in a given year. The costs for printing and stationery over the last six years as follows:
Financial year | Printing and stationery (£ million) |
The Department retains records for six years in accordance with its statutory obligations, therefore information is not available on the earlier years.
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Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what training courses were attended by Child Support Agency staff in each of the last three years; and what the cost was of each course to his Department; [133918]
(2) pursuant to the answer of 26 February 2007, Official Report, column 1064W, on departmental training, how much was spent on courses for staff in the Child Support Agency in (a) stress awareness, (b) self development, (c) self awareness, (d) creative thinking, (e) curriculum vitae writing, (f) running staff clubs, (g) facilitation skills, (h) non-verbal behaviour, (i) intervention skills and (j) being a change agent in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many staff attended these courses. [136020]
Mr. Plaskitt: The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the Chief Executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
Letter from Stephen Geraghty dated, 21 June 2007:
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of state promised a substantive reply from the Chief Executive.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training courses were attended by Child Support Agency staff in the last three years; and what the cost was of each course to his Department. [133918]
You also asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26(th) February 2007, Official Report, column 1064W, on departmental training how much was spent on courses for staff in the Child support Agency in (a) stress awareness, (b) self development, (c) self awareness, (d) creative thinking, (e) curriculum vitae writing, (f) running staff clubs, (g) facilitation skills, (h) non-verbal behaviour, (i) intervention skills and (j) being a change agent in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many staff attended these courses. [136020]
The Agencys training programme is aimed at making Agency people experts in their specialist business areas in order to effectively deliver more money to more children and improve client service. The Agency offers a wide range of training programmes, including technical training, work towards professionally accredited qualifications, and personal effectiveness training, including some of the courses specified above.
This training is delivered using a number of methods, including our own Learning Resource Centre, Departmental e-learning courses that are available to all our people from their work station and accessed via the Departments Intranet, and
external facilitator led training. Varying degrees of information are available for the training offered by each of these sources. Unfortunately, I am therefore unable to provide full detail of all Agency training over the last three years.
Such information as is available is set out in the attached tables.
In relation to the specific training courses you have requested details for, the number of training courses provided via the Learning Resource Centre over the past 3 years is set out in Table 1. However, the information provided is restricted to the number of variable length sessions delivered in the years specified, as information on the number of people participating in the training and the cost to the Agency of these training courses is not available in the format requested.
I am unable to price information for the number of Departmental e-learning courses undertaken by Agency people. There is no cost associated with accessing Departmental e-learning, beyond the time spent taking these courses and their initial development. The Department covered all the developmental costs of these courses and the direct cost to the Agency of each course is nil.
The number of Agency people undertaking the Departments external facilitator led course and the cost of these course is set out in Table 2.
Finally, Tables 3 and 4 set out the number of technical skills training courses attended by Agency people in the last three years. Training set out in Table 4 supports the implementation of the Agencys Operational Improvement Plan, which focuses on delivering more money to more children. Unfortunately, information on the cost for each of these courses in not readily available.
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Table 1: Number of people who attended Learning Resource Centre training sessions during 2004-07 | |||
2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
Table 2: Cost and quantity of DWP/External facilitator led training during 2004-07 | ||||||
2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | ||||
Course type | Number of people | Cost (£) | Number of people | Cost (£) | Number of people | Cost (£) |
Table 3: Number of technical training course held during 2004-06 | ||
Number of courses undertaken | ||
Course type | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
Table 4: Number of technical training courses held during 2006-07 | |
Course t ype | Number of courses undertaken 2006-07 |
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many deduction of earnings orders the Child Support Agency had in place in each month since January 2000; and if he will make a statement. [141095]
Mr. Plaskitt: The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the Chief Executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
Letter from Stephen Geraghty, dated 21 June 2007:
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Chief Executive.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many deduction of earnings orders the Child Support Agency had in place in each month since January 2000; and if he will make a statement.
Such information as is available, is presented in the attached table.
I hope you find this answer helpful.
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